In honor of weddings, both imminent and upcoming, as well as in honor of an anniversary of some sort or another coming up soon, here’s a quick meme to help you kill a few dull minutes:
What are the five qualities, ideals, or characteristics that best define your relationship with your significant other?
1. Being best friends
2. Generally making time go faster, fonder, and smoother.
3. Steadily more advanced communication (we started with rock paper scissors, it seems)
4. Being with a more good-hearted mate than I
5. Logic and imagination work really well together.
(a)Bonus: Hon, you get a bonus item for each cat I don’t have to feed any more. (I’m gonna burn)
What do you do that you think–or know–drives your significant other up the wall? Here’s what I conclude, based on years of studying Pattie and observing her behavioral patterns:
1. Complain about Pattie watching too much TV
2. Pester Pattie over her fear of failure, and some more #1
3. I am a cat pessimist. I’m hoping they devolve.
4. Often assertive without factual basis for assertion.
5. Complain about Pattie watching too much TV and not writing.
Bonus items:
1. Layer the bedcovers and cause Pattie’s legs to roast. Better hers than my hot legs.
2. I forgot to lock things. She’s fond of locking things. I think this drives her batty. Hon? Confirmation? 
You pretty much got them right.
Now start locking the f*$&ing doors.
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test comment from mom’s house
Rich, now that you figured out the problem with my computer, I’m so happy! I’m in blogsphere again! We enjoyed having you over. And thanks for the food stuffs you furnished. And tell Pattie again thank you for helping before and after the meal.
Glad you survived the bee stings. That would have been a rough day indeed.
Looking forward to seeing the new pastel!
Love you,
mom